Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4139 27 Dec 2025, 11:30

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 19:29.533 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.792
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:14.973
And I update APT using apt 5.722
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.233
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.414
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.233
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.217
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.681
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.729
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.473
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.321
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.171
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.226
And the system is very low on memory 4.050
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.476
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.397
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.959
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.264
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And all tps features are active 1.198
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.844
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.769
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.318
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
12.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.341
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.525
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.406
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.710
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.214
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.464
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.869
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.448
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.084
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.155
When I write some files expected to persist 1.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.359
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.239
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 9.761
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.258
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.868
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.168
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.360
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
36.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.675
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.056
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.011
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.349
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.768
When I enable persistence 13.683
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.363
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.378
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.951
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 10.115
And the computer reboots Tails 35.322
Given I enable persistence 6.286
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.367
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.871
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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2:2.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.062
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 27.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.428
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.834
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.708
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.373
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.506
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.706
And all notifications have disappeared 7.976
When I delete the persistent partition 2.682
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.637
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.749
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.241
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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41.660
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.193
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 2.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.627
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.488
And all notifications have disappeared 7.953
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.239
And all tps features are enabled 0.866
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.387
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.265
And I enable persistence 19.156
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.078
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
And persistence is enabled 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.200
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.352
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.667
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.269
When I enable persistence 6.715
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.275
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.531
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.173
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.175
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.636
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.339
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.465
And all notifications have disappeared 8.867
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.283
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.186
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.208
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.472
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.629
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.534
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.399
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.786
When I log in to a new session 9.031
And all notifications have disappeared 8.816
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.271
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000